Soil microbial and faunal community responses to Bt maize and insecticide in two soils

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 734-741

  Griffiths, Bryan S ^a   Caul, Sandra ^a   Thompson, Jacqueline ^a   Birch, A Nicholas E ^a   Scrimgeour, Charles ^a   Cortet, Jérôme ^b,c   Foggo, Andrew ^d   Hackett, Christine A ^e   Krogh, Paul Henning ^f  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE SOLS ET ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^e BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHERIES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INSECTICIDES; MICROBIOLOGY; PROTOZOA;

BT TRAIT ON SOIL POPULATIONS; FAUNAL COMMUNITY RESPONSES; GLASSHOUSE EXPERIMENTS; PLANT GROWTH STAGES; SOIL NEMATODES;

SOILS;

DELTAMETHRIN; INSECTICIDE; PYRETHROID;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CLAY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CULTIVAR; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLY; GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP; GREENHOUSE; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; MAIZE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PROTOZOON; SANDY LOAM; SOIL POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; INSECTICIDES; NEMATODA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTOZOA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; ZEA MAYS;

DIPTERA; NEMATODA; PROTOZOA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33646589673     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2005.0344     Document Type: Article

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